Drizzlehell
Banned
My friend once told me a story about how he played Silent Hunter 2 without using the in-game time compression, instead opting for a real-time simulation that he would leave running in the background while he did something else. He would even keep it running as he slept, with the sounds of the engines humming in the night to provide a fully immersive U-Boot experience.
It amazes me how willingly we used to give up our time to do shit like that when we were teeenagers, lol.
Anyway, that's probably the most extreme (and weirdest) example that I remember but obviously most of us will simply have those type of gaming moments without LARPing in IRL like that. I'm mostly speaking about the times when you were so completely engrossed in the game that there was nothing else in the world except the screen in front of you, and your imagination was running wild.
Like the time when you found yourself caught in a raging thunderstorm in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. As you nervously made your way towards your flickering home base in the dead of night, the sounds of monsters lurking in the darkness kept you on edge. Or the time when you explored the dark and winding tunnels of Metro Last Light, your imagination running wild with every shadow and creak you encountered. And what about the time when you were dead-focused on hunting rabbits in Kingdom Come, where the forest around you felt so real you could almost smell it?
Admittedly, many of those gaming moments were only achievable for me when I was stoned because that was the only time when my racing thoughts could slow down enough to actually pay attention to small things like that, but still, it was as unforgettable as you could get.
It amazes me how willingly we used to give up our time to do shit like that when we were teeenagers, lol.
Anyway, that's probably the most extreme (and weirdest) example that I remember but obviously most of us will simply have those type of gaming moments without LARPing in IRL like that. I'm mostly speaking about the times when you were so completely engrossed in the game that there was nothing else in the world except the screen in front of you, and your imagination was running wild.
Like the time when you found yourself caught in a raging thunderstorm in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat. As you nervously made your way towards your flickering home base in the dead of night, the sounds of monsters lurking in the darkness kept you on edge. Or the time when you explored the dark and winding tunnels of Metro Last Light, your imagination running wild with every shadow and creak you encountered. And what about the time when you were dead-focused on hunting rabbits in Kingdom Come, where the forest around you felt so real you could almost smell it?
Admittedly, many of those gaming moments were only achievable for me when I was stoned because that was the only time when my racing thoughts could slow down enough to actually pay attention to small things like that, but still, it was as unforgettable as you could get.
